I've gone through and removed old VBox packages from my host. I've also decided that since it didn't generate any issues that I'm aware of, the newer package organization, with VBox itself separate from Puppy version-specific drivers, is the way ahead. The more ordinary packages (combined VBox and drivers) have been removed for both VBox 4.1.6 and 4.1.8. (That tidying-up did away with over 770 MB of redundant packages, all said and done.)

If anybody needs a copy for reference or any other reason, you can either send me a message or post a request for it. Otherwise, simply combining the "base" dot-pet and the drivers dot-pet for your Puppy will also produce more or less the same package, if you know how to do that.

Anyway, if any of my rearranging the furniture caused anybody any trouble, all things should be settled now, so go ahead and hit that refresh button or try it again!

Quick note regarding TaZoC and the scripts from LHP for installing 64-bit VBox:

Apparently, TaZoC is not well. (See this post.) I wasn't aware of that, but it would explain why I haven't heard from him.

Sorry to finally hear/read about that, TaZoC. Hope you can recover and get better soon.

Given that news, though, I think I'll try to download a few versions of LHP, and though I can't run the 64-bit versions on my systems, I can at least try to dig out the relevant scripts, etc., from the ISO images or packages, as the case may be. Maybe someone else can make something of them, or maybe they might even work as they are.

virtualbox-4.1.10.sfs for Puppy 4.3.1 and most of Puppies 5.x including Lucid Puppy and Slacko.
Does not support 64-bit nor old Puppy's before 4.3.1.
Available from http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/

If you have ever installed another or older virtualbox PET/SFS and trying new, remove old ones and delete '/lib/modules/*/misc/vbox*.ko', /opt/VirtualBox, if they are exists, before loading the new.

also here is the vbox addition and extension pack.
extension pack can be installed from terminal using virtualbox,
ie:
$virtualbox virtualbox.extension.pack.files

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/

Huh. I didn't know you could install it from the command line. I've always done it through the GUI menu (File -> Preferences -> Extensions).

Anyway, the extension pack is also linked through my packages guide. Once you are on the page specific to your VBox version, at the bottom there's a link to "extras", and from there a link to the extension pack, guest additions ISO, user manual (online HTML & PDF), etc.

If anybody would like me to make a "one-for-all" sort of SFS, with drivers for several of the more recent Puppies included- like shinobar has done with a few VirtualBox versions- let me know. The upload would take a little while, but it'd be easy enough to do.

I have issues with the VirtualBox 4.1.8.... I installed the pets correctly, as they were given here in this thread... but the kernel modules aren't being loaded, and with that, the vbox does not load either.

I get the warning that I have to check on SMP and everything, and I have to check with dmesg... once I do that, it indicates its trying to load the modules from multiple locations, but they are the wrong compile...

I have issues with the VirtualBox 4.1.8.... I installed the pets correctly, as they were given here in this thread... but the kernel modules aren't being loaded, and with that, the vbox does not load either.

I get the warning that I have to check on SMP and everything, and I have to check with dmesg... once I do that, it indicates its trying to load the modules from multiple locations, but they are the wrong compile...

While it's obvious that things haven't worked as they should for you, I'm afraid I can't quite tell what the specifics of your situation are.

I'll need a bit more info before I can try to help.

First, could you please tell me which version of Puppy you're running, and check the kernel version by typing

Code:

uname -r

into a terminal?

Second, could you try to launch virtualbox from the command line, and copy and post what it returns so that I can read it? (Pasting into a text file and attaching that might work better still.)

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